Going back to Berlin was a dreamlike experience, this was my third time visiting the city but the first time I went there to do 0 touristic activities.
I had the chance to attend only to the last 2 days out of four that the UX Intensive had to cover the range of areas that cover the UX Design process defined by Adaptive Path which are:
- Design Strategy by Henning Fischer (everyone’s favorite day/missed it)
- Design Research
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
In my opinion everyone became such a big fan of the Design Strategy day mainly because is one of the hardest points to tackle and that most of us as designers are asked to deliver answers before having any truthful insight of the business goals to achieve. Thinking of how many products have to come back and revise their design strategy when the business model comes up and breaks the user experience completely.
The most I could make is that through each of this areas we are going to be able to gather the needed tools to make better decisions regarding a product and mainly talking about the slippery floors that the innovation rooms have.
Thinking about writing regarding my learning experience in this field, I’ll prepare a little surprise very soon.
Being a designer for a small start-up is not easy, mainly when UK immigration laws are on panic, and the visa renewal requirements change every 3 months or so. Even when the people you work with make the effort to help you out not everyone has the ability to be a sponsor. Many of my friends have already been deported or sent back to their countries which is not nice.
Before becoming illegal in the “fun city”, I’ve chosen to come and spend some time with some old friends from Madrid, which is very far of being a punishment :).
Here in Madrid I was lucky enough to meet again my ex-classmate and now colleague Mark Mackey, who I admire and respect, he is now part of the Vostok team which is highly recognized not only in this country but also abroad.
I was thrilled to be invited to their weekly lunches, and a bit afterwhile to take part on a small project with them, I really love the way they work as a team and how they communicate to eachother not even mentioning their design work, I only wished I was as informed as them.
revista maya sin fronteras
I am very glad that after 3 years on this project we can afford to have a photographer, not full time yet, but at least now we can count with one as part of the team. My dear an talented friend Daniel Molina now is part of the team as well as Abigail Nieves, who started this Feb on the Editorial side.
